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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1934
Page
3
Pierre reports November motor vehicle accidents totaled 96 with 2 deaths and 83 injuries and $17 665 in property damage. The prior November had 82 accidents, 12 deaths, 41 injuries, and $6 990 in losses. Through 11 months of 1934, 671 accidents occurred versus 774 last year, with 103 deaths to 100.
The Homestake Mine company of Lead is donating $5,000 each to Augustana Sioux Falls Huron Yankton and Dakota Wesleyan. Gifts are conditional on the colleges matching the funds with additional funds raised. The gifts are arranged through company attorney Chambers Kellar.
Sioux Falls dispatch reports Sheriff Melvin L. Bells announcing night patrols on Minnehaha County highways to curb road hog truck drivers after complaints. He warned of court action for offenders and cited recent truck-related fatal accidents in South Dakota.
Out of 203 entries for the pas torized milk contest by the Gettysburg creamery Melo-Glo from Irene Tobin of Gettysburg won the $5 prize. Meadow Sweet from H Medberry of California took second. Judges were two Gettysburg merchants and the creamery proprietor.
Mr and Mrs Frank Bottger announce the birth of their son Frederick Lee who weighed nine pounds at birth. The event occurred on December 21.
State lawmakers will propose a rivers’ license for motorists modeled after California and Nebraska. Senator Laverne Balleau and Rep elect Ed Riley back the bill, with support from State Auditor George O Neill. The measure aims to curb drunken driving and screen new applicants with initial exam pass rates in the 25 to 30 percent range.
About 100 people attended the Broadland I O O F hall meeting of the Broadland community club. The ladies extension sang carols, the high school presented a pantomime The Dutchess Drops In, and the M EB choir sang. A debated proposal on a national shelter belt was presented with Tenney and De Jong affirming and dema and Cummings negating. Bill Stimpson read The Broadland Tattler. A social hour and lunch followed.
At a recent Sunflower camp No 912 RNA meeting in Wolsey the officers elected include Ottie Hagen oracle Effie Rawstein vice oracle Jessie Gordon past oracle Emily Shoemaker marshal Blanche Rodman chancellor Lizzie Lanobs inner sentinel Ethel Carson recorder Mae Wintner receiver Sarah Getcher manager Alva Baker outer sentinel and Vida Fenner as installing officer. A Christian Endeavor Social will be held at the Presbyterian church tonight at 7:10 o clock.
Miss F. B. Mills announces there will be no church services Sunday. Morning service remains at 10 30 and the evening meeting at 8 o clock.
Devigi sncre Vermillion reports LC Mitchell head of painting and allied arts at the University of South Dakota argues art should not be undervalued beside English and history in schools. He says art expresses ideas through colors shapes and sizes and training of art teachers is inadequate.
Charles A. Hays, 78, veteran jurist of Eldora, Ja, died after a year long illness in Aberdeen. He had lived in Aberdeen for the past year where his son Wendell J. Hays resides. Funeral services and interment will be in Eldora on Sunday.
Gettysburg high school orchestra led by Miss Helen Van Nest of International Falla Minnesota is progressing and expected to present its first concert soon. Richland township schools close for a week long vacation starting today per official notice.
Madison December 21 notes from an agriculture evening class at Eastern high school report that protein supplements boost milk and butterfat. Louis Schrader cited cottonseed cake increasing daily milk yield by 35 to 45 pounds across 18 cows with higher butterfat, while tankage reportedly added milk and fat tests. A proposed ration using corm fodder silage Russian thistle and pigeon grass hay plus tankage would meet 1200 pound cow needs for 20 pounds of 35 percent milk at about 19 cents daily without grain, deemed cheaper than other plans.
Huron students Helen Jo Betts and Aileen Jones top the fall quarter scholastic honor roll at Dakota Wesleyan University with four A grades. Also on the list are Robert Wagner of Huron with three A's and Winona Boughton Vera LaCraft of Huron with one A and two B's.
Workers from Richland township met at J A Ratliff place to butcher veal for distribution to the needy in the township on Wednesday.
The Ree Heights PTA met in the high school gym with Kathryn Spiers presiding. The program centered on home life with talks on health from Misa Wallo and an IDEA convention report by Mr Would. The mothers chorus performed two numbers, a sewing club presented a one act play Needle thread and gabber, Camp Fire girls hosted with decorations, and popcorn balls were shared.
At a recent Wolsey meeting Crown chapter No. 118 OES installed officers including Worthy Matron Mrs. Minnie Chesley Worthy Patron Louis Markell Assistant Matron Hazel Dragseth Secretary Ada Seeley Treasurer Ottie Hagen Conductress Mabel Lee Assistant Conductress Mayme Newton Chaplain Emma Jensen Ada Delia Washabough Ruth Kathleen Spitner Esther Maxine Cogswell Martha Mabel Custer Electa Edna Privett Organist unnamed staff.
Ida Cotton Marshall Mrs May Lind blad warder Mrs Louis Markell senti mel Mr Burton Custer mentioned. A pot sack lunch was served following the meeting.
The Yale extension club met at Mrs. E. Harding's home for a Christmas party with 17 members present. A brief business meeting opened the afternoon before games and puzzles began. Gifts were exchanged and refreshments served by the entertainment committee.
Twenty four families from the Carpenter community gathered at the Carpenter location on December 21 for a communal oxster supper event.
A Christmas program will be presented at the Presbyterian Church on Monday evening at 7 o clock. The event features music by Bruley’s orchestra and an oyster supper with social dancing and visiting afterward.
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